Housen
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Housen is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Syria than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Americanized spelling of German Hausen.
- USUnited States1 in 770K(measured from records)
- JMJamaica≈1 in 11K
- KNSt. Kitts & Nevis1 in 13K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Syria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 181 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 11K (inferred from the name graph)
≈490 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Americanized spelling of German Hausen.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Housen counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| SY Syria | — | ≈490 est. | ≈1 in 40K | — | Housen | 5 |
| US United States | — | 432 | 1 in 770K | 476 | Housen | 181 |
| BE Belgium | — | 383 | 1 in 31K | 383 | Housen | 17 |
| JM Jamaica | #558 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Housen | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 169 | 1 in 102K | 169 | Housen | 12 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | — | 4 | 1 in 13K | 4 | — | 2 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007); St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Housen is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In enm, To accommodate or lodge; to have as a guest:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, definite singular of house
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Alex Housenb. 1964Germanist
- Roger HousenBEformer military officer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 476 | #47,959 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 432 | #48,800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 409 | #48,469 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 383 | #4,124 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 376 | #4,306 |
| NL Netherlands | CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007) | 2007 | 169 | #12,225 |
| KN St. Kitts & Nevis | St Kitts & Nevis — Register of Electors 2026 | 2026 | 4 | #178 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Housen mean, and where does it come from?
- Americanized spelling of German Hausen. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Housen have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 485 people named Housen in Syria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled housen.
- How common is the name Housen?
- In the United States, the national register counted 432 people named Housen in 2010, about 1 in 770 thousand residents.
- How common is Housen compared with other names?
- In Jamaica, Housen is the 558th most common surname of 50,451 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Housen?
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/housenThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Housen” — the 558th most common surname in Jamaica. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.